Women have made various struggles to have equal rights with men since the French Revolution. As a result of their struggle which has accelerated after World War II, many studies have been conducted at national and international levels in order to protect the women and to ensure the equality in the real sense by eliminating discrimination. However, for the full embracement of the principle of equality of woman and man, circumstances such as male dominance being active in society, and patriarchalism in cultural terms being present, have created and are still a major obstacle. Women have the right to benefit from human rights as individuals. However, due to gender discrimination, ‘women’s rights’ are also specifically regulated in international documents, in particular as regards the principle of equality. The main reason for this is that it is essential to prevent unequal and discriminatory practices against women and to improve women’s social status. The first step taken with the 1945 UN Charter in this regard was supported and developed by the international documentation published in the United Nations, as well as the studies done within the European Union. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which is considered to be the most important of the documents regulating women’s rights in particular, has come into force; The Convention, to which Turkey is a party, has made contracting states under the obligation to take measures to prevent discrimination by prohibiting any discrimination on the grounds of gender against women. The Additional Protocol to the Convention also established control mechanisms that could be put into effect in breach of the rights. Gender discrimination against women is utmost revealed in violence against women. This issue was discussed for the first time with the Nairobi Strategies, and the Istanbul Convention, to which Turkey is also a party, was born on the grounds that the states were forced to take concrete precautions and a higher consciousness was needed. In our country, while legal regulations are quite suitable to international standards on the one hand, there are some examples of discrimination, violation of rights and violence that can not be accepted in contemporary societies on the other hand. The legal regulations and actual reality in Turkey will be discussed in light of the international documents related to the issue, especially the Contracts mentioned in the notice, and it will be attempted to discuss and evaluate how a positive transformation in practice will be possible.